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that particular office seems, however, to have been short. On July 2, 1489, Sir David Owen, Kt., obtained a grant of the office of constable and warden of Winchester Castle, with 10 marks a year, " in as full a manner as William Berkeley, late an esquire for the body of Edward IV., and John Roger, esquire, late joint constables there," and also with all arrears since Michaelmas 3 Hen. VII., the date at which Sir David Owen began to occupy the office by the king's command. See ' Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1485-94,' p. 268. Lord Daubeney -was Lord Chamberlain of the King's House- hold from 1495 until his death in 1508.

H. C. Winchester College.

[M,R. H. J. B. CLEMENTS, MR. HUGH M. HOWARD, and MR. J. DE BERNIERB SMITH all suggest Giles, Lord Daubeney.]

SPENSER'S ' FAERIE QUEENE ' : SANS LOY, SANS FOY, SANS JOY (12 S. iv. 71). It is argued that

" these three names should be pronounced in such a way as to make them appear true knights, and

not enemies of the soul the pagan knighte

masquerade as St. Loy, St. Foy, and St. Joy. If they carried names that rerealed their evil character, their power of misleading the soul would be greatly reduced."

Apart from any question of pronunciation, it may be observed that each of these pagan knights has his name inscribed on his shield. Besides, though we may demand that a simile should go on all fours, such a millipede as an allegory is bound to have many of its legs out of joint. And imagina- tive literature has long enjoyed a licence in the coining of proper names that shall be appropriate to the character. We accept Littlewit and Pinch wife and Backbite ; and, as Dickens says of Capt. Murderer in the nurse's story of his childhood, " his warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him."

EDWARD BENSLY.

GAUZE FLOWER : AUTUMN'S GLORY (12 S. iv. 104). The former of these is the name commonly given about here to the Gypso- phila paniculata

I think " autumn's glory " is a convol- vulus. A. H. ARKLE.

Oxton, Birkenhead.

ICKE FAMILY (12 S. iv. 106). Icke, Hick (Higg), Hickie, Hicks, Hickson, Dick, Dickie, &c., were all originally nicknames

PRIESTLEY'S PORTRAIT BY J. SHARPLES [12 S. iv. .185). I advise MR. LUPTON to apply to the descendants of Joseph Priestley, who live in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, where their eminent ancestor lived and died. Should he obtain news of the picture, collaterals in this country would be glad to share it with him.

J. C. P. (nee Priestley).

SHAKESPEARE'S WALK (12 S. iv. 156). This place was Alderman Shakespeare's Rope Walk (the name was, as usual, spelt very variously) ; it was the site of the Alderman's main business ; his dwelling- house was among the best folks in Stepney Causeway ; and he claimed descent from the family of William Shakespeare's father. Shakespeare's Walk now lies " full fathom five " in the Shadwell Basin of the London Dock a work the construction of which made a large hole in the lower part of the parish of Shadwell. In the time mentioned by W. A., Shakespeare's Walk was well known to London citizens and their ladies and to " society " further West, because it was the direct route to the Shadwell Spa and its remarkably gaudy Music House, from King James's Stairs, midway along Wapping Wall. For fine company the water way to Shadwell Spa and the Music House was safer and quieter than the devious and dubious journey along shore eastward of the Tower in the days of " good Queen Anne." King James's Stairs, it may be mentioned, were named after Queen Anne's parent, for it was at a low ale-house at the head of the steps in Lower Shadwell, as gossiping watermen averred, that his Majesty came to grief, though it is suspected that they muddled the tradition of King James's first flight from Whitehall to Sheerness (Dec. 10/11, 1688), down the Thames, with the story of the arrest of the infamous Judge Jeffreys. Me.

In J. Evans's map, published in 1799 " A New and Accurate Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of South wark, &c." Shakespeare's Walk is shown as running from Upper Shadwell to Wapping Wall. JAMES A. SEYMOUR.

Public Library, West Kilburn, N.W.6.

I would suggest that Shakespeare's Walk might have received its name from the Shakespeare family resident in Stepney

derived from the personal name Richard. I from the seventeenth century to the Hick formerly rivalled Dick in popularity, nineteenth. There is an altar-tomb in

N. W. HILL. | Stepney Churchyard commemorating several